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- Title
PLURAL VOTING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
- Authors
Mulligan, Thomas
- Abstract
Recent political developments cast doubt on the wisdom of democratic decision-making. Brexit, the Colombian people's (initial) rejection of peace with the FARC and the election of Donald Trump suggest that the time is right to explore alternatives to democracy. In this essay, I describe and defend the epistocratic system of government which is, given current theoretical and empirical knowledge, most likely to produce optimal political outcomes-or at least better outcomes than democracy produces. To wit, we should expand the suffrage as wide as possible and weight citizen's votes in accordance with their competence. As it turns out, the optimal system is closely related to J. S. Mill's plural voting proposal. I also explain how voter's competences can be precisely determined, without reference to an objective standard of correctness and without generating invidious comparisons between voters.
- Subjects
PLURAL voting; MERITOCRACY; DEMOCRACY; GROUP decision making; POLITICAL development
- Publication
Philosophical Quarterly, 2018, Vol 68, Issue 271, p286
- ISSN
0031-8094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pq/pqx046